Earthworm 🐌Tech-solutions like high-rise, soil-less greenhouses are expensive (although VC funds and governmental subsidies may give the impression that there is potential) and completely miss the issues of the food systems (resource and energy intensity, social and labor aspects, corporations as drivers of the unsustainability of the food system, the potential of appropriately managed agroecosystems to host biodiversity, biogeochemical nutrient cycling and carbon storage ...).
I had a professor at university that was fully engaged un hightech highrise farming.
He wasn't at all pleased when his students pointed out that his pet technology would be horribly fragile, depending on global logistic chains, electricity and inputs (fertilizers, and a lot of pesticides, since the system needs to be kept near-sterile).
Skyfarming has a low resilience in chaotic situations. Please let us not make our food production be even more dependent on a well-functioning modern society, especially when facing *this* future.
We need productive and sustainable smallholder systems. The solutions are out there and many people are working towards the transition to #agroecology.
(Not meant as an attack towards you, @maarteuh, I just want to argue against such tech-solutions in agriculture, because due to our current culture, "promising" technocratic solutions need to be viewed very critically)
#Agroecology #Skyfarming #PeasantAgriculture #VegetableProduction #FoodSystem